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<section begin="1"/>{{red|b=1|Here begins the epitome on the knightly art of combat that was composed and created by Johannes Liechtenauer, who was a great master in the art, God have mercy on him;}}<br/><br/>
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<section begin="1"/>{{red|b=1|Here Begin the Notes on the Knightly Art of Combat That Was Composed and Created by Johannes Liechtenauer, Who Was A Great Master in the Art, God Have Mercy on Him;}}<br/><br/>
  
first with the long sword, then with the lance and sword on horseback, and then with the short sword in armoured combat. Because the art belongs to princes and lords, knights and squires, and they should know and learn this art, he has written of this art in hidden and secret words, so that not everyone will grasp and understand it, as you will find described below. And he has done this on account of frivolous fight masters who mistake the art as trivial, so that such masters will not make his art common or open with people who do not hold the art in respect as is its due.<section end="1"/>
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first with the long sword, then with the lance and sword on horseback, and then with the shortened sword in armoured combat. Because the art belongs to princes and lords, knights and squires, and they should know and learn this art, he has written of this art in hidden and secret words, so that not everyone will grasp and understand it, as you will find described below. And he has done this on account of frivolous fight masters who mistake the art as trivial, so that such masters will not make his art common or open with people who do not hold the art in respect as is its due.<section end="1"/>
  
 
<section begin="2"/>{{red|b=1|This is the Prologue}}
 
<section begin="2"/>{{red|b=1|This is the Prologue}}
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| <small>1</small>
 
| <small>1</small>
| Young knight, learn<br/>&emsp;to love god and revere women;
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| Young knight, learn<br/>&emsp;to love God and revere women;
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>2</small>
 
| <small>2</small>
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|}<section end="2"/>
 
|}<section end="2"/>
  
<section begin="3"/>{{red|b=1|This is a general teaching of the long sword}}<br/><br/>
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<section begin="3"/>{{red|b=1|This is a General Teaching of the Long Sword}}<br/><br/>
 
{| class="zettel"
 
{| class="zettel"
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>9</small>
 
| <small>9</small>
| If you want to behold the art,<br/>&emsp;See that you go on the left and strike with the right.
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| If you want to behold the art,<br/>&emsp;see that you go on the left and strike with the right.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>10</small>
 
| <small>10</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>12</small>
 
| <small>12</small>
| Strike close whatever you will,<br/>&emsp;no Changer will come into your shield.
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| Strike close whatever you will,<br/>&emsp;no changer will come into your shield.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>13</small>
 
| <small>13</small>
| To the head, to the body<br/>&emsp;do not shun the Tag-Hits.
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| To the head, to the body<br/>&emsp;do not shun the tag-hits.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>14</small>
 
| <small>14</small>
| Fight with the entire body,<br/>&emsp;What you powerfully want to do.
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| Fight with the entire body,<br/>&emsp;what you powerfully want to do.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>15</small>
 
| <small>15</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>17</small>
 
| <small>17</small>
| Before and After, these two things,<br/>&emsp;are to all skill a well-spring.
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| Before and after, these two things,<br/>&emsp;are to all skill a well-spring.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>18</small>
 
| <small>18</small>
| Weak and Strong,<br/>&emsp;Always remember the word Instantly.
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| Weak and strong,<br/>&emsp;always remember the word meanwhile.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>19</small>
 
| <small>19</small>
| So you may learn<br/>&emsp;To work and defend with skill.
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| So you may learn<br/>&emsp;to work and defend with skill.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>20</small>
 
| <small>20</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>23</small>
 
| <small>23</small>
| Wrath Stroke, Crooked, Thwart,<br/>&emsp;Squinter and Scalper,
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| Wrath stroke, crooked, thwart,<br/>&emsp;squinter and scalper,
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>24</small>
 
| <small>24</small>
| Fool parries<br/>&emsp;chasing, overrunning gives strokes,
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| fool parries<br/>&emsp;chasing, overrunning gives strokes,
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>25</small>
 
| <small>25</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>27</small>
 
| <small>27</small>
| Who strikes at you above,<br/>&emsp;the Wrath stroke threatens him with the point.
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| Who strikes at you above,<br/>&emsp;the wrath stroke threatens him with the point.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>28</small>
 
| <small>28</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>31</small>
 
| <small>31</small>
| Instantly, and Before and After.<br/>&emsp;Your War should not be in haste.
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| meanwhile, and before and after.<br/>&emsp;Your war should not be in haste.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>32</small>
 
| <small>32</small>
| Who to the War tends above,<br/>&emsp;gets ashamed below.
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| Who to the war tends above,<br/>&emsp;gets ashamed below.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>33</small>
 
| <small>33</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>34</small>
 
| <small>34</small>
| Also you should<br/>&emsp;Apply stroke, thrust, or slice,
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| Also you should<br/>&emsp;apply stroke, thrust, or slice,
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>35</small>
 
| <small>35</small>
| In all encounters,<br/>&emsp;if you want to fool the masters.
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| in all encounters,<br/>&emsp;if you want to fool the masters.
 
|}<section end="5"/>
 
|}<section end="5"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>37</small>
 
| <small>37</small>
| Without any danger<br/>&emsp;without regard for how he acts;
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| without any danger<br/>&emsp;without regard for how he acts.
 
|}<section end="6"/>
 
|}<section end="6"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>39</small>
 
| <small>39</small>
| Double above,<br/>&emsp;transmute below correctly.
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| double above,<br/>&emsp;transmute below correctly.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>40</small>
 
| <small>40</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>41</small>
 
| <small>41</small>
| If you have correctly learned,<br/>&emsp;he will scarcely manage to strike.
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| if you have correctly learned,<br/>&emsp;he will scarcely manage to strike.
 
|}<section end="7"/>
 
|}<section end="7"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>44</small>
 
| <small>44</small>
| Strike crooked to the flats<br/>&emsp;of the Masters if you want to weaken them.
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| Strike crooked to the flats<br/>&emsp;of the masters if you want to weaken them.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>45</small>
 
| <small>45</small>
| When it clashes above,<br/>&emsp;Then move away, that I will praise.
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| When it clashes above,<br/>&emsp;then move away, that I will praise.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>46</small>
 
| <small>46</small>
| Don't do the Crooked, strike short,<br/>&emsp;Changing through show with this.
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| Don't do the crooked, strike short,<br/>&emsp;changing through show with this.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>47</small>
 
| <small>47</small>
| Strike crooked to who irritates you,<br/>&emsp;the Noble War will confuse him,
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| Strike crooked to who irritates you,<br/>&emsp;the noble war will confuse him,
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>48</small>
 
| <small>48</small>
| That he will not know truthfully<br/>&emsp;where he can be without danger.
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| that he will not know truthfully<br/>&emsp;where he can be without danger.
 
|}<section end="8"/>
 
|}<section end="8"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>49</small>
 
| <small>49</small>
| The Thwart Stroke takes<br/>&emsp;whatever comes from the roof.
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| The thwart stroke takes<br/>&emsp;whatever comes from the roof.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>50</small>
 
| <small>50</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>51</small>
 
| <small>51</small>
| Thwart to the Plow;<br/>&emsp;to the Ox hard together.
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| Thwart to the plow;<br/>&emsp;to the ox hard together.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>52</small>
 
| <small>52</small>
| He who thwarts well<br/>&emsp;with springing he endangers the head.
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| He who thwarts well<br/>&emsp;with springing, he endangers the head.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>53</small>
 
| <small>53</small>
| Whoever conducts the Failer<br/>&emsp;from below he hits at his will.
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| Whoever conducts the failer<br/>&emsp;from below, he hits at his will.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>54</small>
 
| <small>54</small>
| The Reverser enforces the<br/>&emsp;running through and also brings wrestling.
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| The reverser enforces the<br/>&emsp;running through and also brings wrestling.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>55</small>
 
| <small>55</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>56</small>
 
| <small>56</small>
| Double the Failer,<br/>&emsp;if you hit, also make the slice.
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| Double the failer,<br/>&emsp;if you hit, also make the slice.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>57</small>
 
| <small>57</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>58</small>
 
| <small>58</small>
| The Squinter breaks into<br/>&emsp;whatever a buffalo strikes or thrusts.
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| The squinter breaks into<br/>&emsp;whatever a buffalo strikes or thrusts.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>59</small>
 
| <small>59</small>
| Who threatens to change through,<br/>&emsp;the Squinter robs him of it.
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| Who threatens to change through,<br/>&emsp;the squinter robs him of it.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>60</small>
 
| <small>60</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>63</small>
 
| <small>63</small>
| The Scalper<br/>&emsp;is a danger to the face,
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| The scalper<br/>&emsp;is a danger to the face,
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>64</small>
 
| <small>64</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>65</small>
 
| <small>65</small>
| Whatever comes from him,<br/>&emsp;the Crown will take it.
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| Whatever comes from him,<br/>&emsp;the crown will take it.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>66</small>
 
| <small>66</small>
| Slice through the Crown,<br/>&emsp;thus you will break it hard through.
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| Slice through the crown,<br/>&emsp;thus you will break it hard through.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>67</small>
 
| <small>67</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>68</small>
 
| <small>68</small>
| Four guards alone hold;<br/>&emsp;And disdain the common.
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| Four guards alone hold;<br/>&emsp;and disdain the common.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>69</small>
 
| <small>69</small>
| Ox, Plow, Fool,<br/>&emsp;From the Roof should not be unknown to you.
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| Ox, plow, fool,<br/>&emsp;from the Roof should not be unknown to you.
 
|}<section end="12"/>
 
|}<section end="12"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>73</small>
 
| <small>73</small>
| Hear what I advise to you:<br/>&emsp;Tear away and strike quickly with surprise.
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| hear what I advise to you:<br/>&emsp;tear away and strike quickly with surprise.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>74</small>
 
| <small>74</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>78</small>
 
| <small>78</small>
| Learn the feeling.<br/>&emsp;The word Instantly slices sharply.
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| Learn the feeling.<br/>&emsp;The word meanwhile slices sharply.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>79</small>
 
| <small>79</small>
| Chase twice,<br/>&emsp;if you hit, do the Ancient Slice as well.
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| Chase twice,<br/>&emsp;if you hit, do the ancient slice as well.
 
|}<section end="14"/>
 
|}<section end="14"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>83</small>
 
| <small>83</small>
| Learn to set aside,<br/>&emsp;To skillfully hinder stroke and thrust.
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| Learn to set aside,<br/>&emsp;to skillfully hinder stroke and thrust.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>84</small>
 
| <small>84</small>
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>89</small>
 
| <small>89</small>
| Pull—if he meets, pull more.<br/>&emsp;Find the work that will hurt him.
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| Pull&ndash;if he meets, pull more.<br/>&emsp;Find the work that will hurt him.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>90</small>
 
| <small>90</small>
| Pull in all encounters<br/>&emsp;against the Masters, if you want to fool them.
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| Pull in all encounters<br/>&emsp;against the masters, if you want to fool them.
 
|}<section end="18"/>
 
|}<section end="18"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>97</small>
 
| <small>97</small>
| In all attacks<br/>&emsp;strike, thrust, posture—soft or hard.
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| In all attacks<br/>&emsp;strike, thrust, posture&ndash;soft or hard.
 
|}<section end="22"/>
 
|}<section end="22"/>
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>98</small>
 
| <small>98</small>
| Do the Speaking Window,<br/>&emsp;stand blithely and look at his actions.
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| Do the speaking window,<br/>&emsp;stand blithely and look at his actions.
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>99</small>
 
| <small>99</small>
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|}<section end="23"/>
 
|}<section end="23"/>
  
<section begin="24"/>{{red|b=1|This is the Conclusion of the Epitome}}<br/><br/>
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<section begin="24"/>{{red|b=1|This Is the Conclusion of the Notes}}<br/><br/>
 
{| class="zettel"
 
{| class="zettel"
 
|-  
 
|-  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>103</small>
 
| <small>103</small>
| And splits particularly<br/>&emsp;everything into three wounders
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| and splits particularly<br/>&emsp;everything into three wounders;
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>104</small>
 
| <small>104</small>
| Who properly well hangs<br/>&emsp;and also executes the windings,
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| who properly well hangs<br/>&emsp;and also executes the windings,
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>105</small>
 
| <small>105</small>
| And the eight windings<br/>&emsp;views in a righteous way,
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| and the eight windings<br/>&emsp;views in a righteous way,
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>106</small>
 
| <small>106</small>
| And each one of<br/>&emsp;those same winds I consider to be triple  
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| and each one of<br/>&emsp;those same winds I consider to be triple  
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>107</small>
 
| <small>107</small>
| So they are<br/>&emsp;twenty-four.  
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| so they are<br/>&emsp;twenty-four.  
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
| <small>108</small>
 
| <small>108</small>

Revision as of 04:11, 12 June 2025

Here Begin the Notes on the Knightly Art of Combat That Was Composed and Created by Johannes Liechtenauer, Who Was A Great Master in the Art, God Have Mercy on Him;

first with the long sword, then with the lance and sword on horseback, and then with the shortened sword in armoured combat. Because the art belongs to princes and lords, knights and squires, and they should know and learn this art, he has written of this art in hidden and secret words, so that not everyone will grasp and understand it, as you will find described below. And he has done this on account of frivolous fight masters who mistake the art as trivial, so that such masters will not make his art common or open with people who do not hold the art in respect as is its due.

This is the Prologue

1 Young knight, learn
 to love God and revere women;
2 thus your honor will grow.
 Practice knighthood and learn
3 the Art that dignifies you,
 and brings you honor in wars.
4 Be a good grappler in wrestling;
 lance, spear, sword, and messer
5 handle manfully,
 and foil them in your opponent's hands.
6 Strike in and hasten forth;
 rush to, let it hit, or go by.
7 Thus those with wisdom, the ones who
 are revered, will envy him.
8 This you should grasp:
 All arts have length and measure.

This is a General Teaching of the Long Sword

9 If you want to behold the art,
 see that you go on the left and strike with the right.
10 And left to right,
 is how you strongly want to fight.
11 He who follows the strokes,
 should rejoice little in his art.
12 Strike close whatever you will,
 no changer will come into your shield.
13 To the head, to the body
 do not shun the tag-hits.
14 Fight with the entire body,
 what you powerfully want to do.
15 Listen to what is wrong,
 do not fight above on the left if you are righthanded;
16 and if you are lefthanded,
 on the right you limp as well.
17 Before and after, these two things,
 are to all skill a well-spring.
18 Weak and strong,
 always remember the word meanwhile.
19 So you may learn
 to work and defend with skill.
20 If you are easily intimidated,
 no fencing should you learn.
21 Learn five strokes
 from the right side against the opposition.
22 Then we promise
 that your arts will be rewarded.

This is the text:

23 Wrath stroke, crooked, thwart,
 squinter and scalper,
24 fool parries
 chasing, overrunning gives strokes,
25 change through, pull,
 run through, slice off, press the hands,
26 hang, wind with the openings;
 strike, catch, slash, thrust with jabs.

The Wrath Stroke

27 Who strikes at you above,
 the wrath stroke threatens him with the point.
28 If he becomes aware of it,
 take it away above without fear.
29 Be strong against it;
 wind, thrust. If he sees that, take it down.
30 Note this:
 strike, thrust, posture, soft or hard,
31 meanwhile, and before and after.
 Your war should not be in haste.
32 Who to the war tends above,
 gets ashamed below.
33 In all winding
 learn to find stroke, thrust, and slice.
34 Also you should
 apply stroke, thrust, or slice,
35 in all encounters,
 if you want to fool the masters.

The Four Openings

36 Four openings know,
 aim: so you hit certainly,
37 without any danger
 without regard for how he acts.

To Counter the Four Openings

38 If you want to avenge yourself,
 break the four openings with skill:
39 double above,
 transmute below correctly.
40 I say to you truthfully:
 no one can defend himself without danger;
41 if you have correctly learned,
 he will scarcely manage to strike.

The Crooked Stroke

42 Crooked on him with nimbleness,
 throw the point on the hands.
43 Who performs the crooked well,
 with stepping he hinders many a stroke.
44 Strike crooked to the flats
 of the masters if you want to weaken them.
45 When it clashes above,
 then move away, that I will praise.
46 Don't do the crooked, strike short,
 changing through show with this.
47 Strike crooked to who irritates you,
 the noble war will confuse him,
48 that he will not know truthfully
 where he can be without danger.

The Thwart Stroke

49 The thwart stroke takes
 whatever comes from the roof.
50 Thwart with the strong,
 note your work with this.
51 Thwart to the plow;
 to the ox hard together.
52 He who thwarts well
 with springing, he endangers the head.
53 Whoever conducts the failer
 from below, he hits at his will.
54 The reverser enforces the
 running through and also brings wrestling.
55 The elbow take certainly,
 spring into his balance.
56 Double the failer,
 if you hit, also make the slice.
57 Twice further on,
 step to the left and do not be slow.

The Squinting Stroke

58 The squinter breaks into
 whatever a buffalo strikes or thrusts.
59 Who threatens to change through,
 the squinter robs him of it.
60 Squint when he is short against you,
 changing through defeats him.
61 Squint to the point,
 and take the throat without fear.
62 Squint to the head above
 if you want to damage the hands.

The Scalp Cut

63 The scalper
 is a danger to the face,
64 with its turn,
 very dangerous to the breast.
65 Whatever comes from him,
 the crown will take it.
66 Slice through the crown,
 thus you will break it hard through.
67 Press the strokes,
 with slices pull them away.

The Four Guards

68 Four guards alone hold;
 and disdain the common.
69 Ox, plow, fool,
 from the Roof should not be unknown to you.

The Four Oppositions

70 Four are the oppositions
 that hurt the four guards very much.
71 Beware of parrying.
 If it happens to you, it troubles you greatly.
72 If you are parried
 and when that has happened,
73 hear what I advise to you:
 tear away and strike quickly with surprise.
74 Set upon the four ends.
 Stay upon them, learn if you want to bring it to an end.

Chasing

75 Learn the chasing
 twice, or slice into the weapon.
76 Two outer intentions.
 The work after that begins.
77 And test the attacks
 if they are soft or hard.
78 Learn the feeling.
 The word meanwhile slices sharply.
79 Chase twice,
 if you hit, do the ancient slice as well.

Overrunning

80 Who wants to strike below,
 overrun him, and he will be shamed.
81 When it clashes above,
 then strengthen: this I truly do praise.
82 Do your work,
 or press hard twice.

Setting Aside

83 Learn to set aside,
 to skillfully hinder stroke and thrust.
84 Who thrusts at you,
 your point hits and counters his.
85 From both sides
 hit every time if you want to step.

Changing Through

86 Learn the changing through
 from both sides, thrust with intent.
87 Whoever binds to you,
 changing through will find him indeed.

Pulling

88 Step close in binding.
 The pulling provides good finds.
89 Pull–if he meets, pull more.
 Find the work that will hurt him.
90 Pull in all encounters
 against the masters, if you want to fool them.

Running Through

91 Run through, let hang
 with the pommel. Grasp if you want to wrestle.
92 Who comes strongly at you,
 the running through then remember.

Slicing Off

93 Slice off the hard ones,
 from below in both attacks.
94 Four are the slices:
 two below and two above.

Pressing Hands

95 Turn your edge,
 press the hands to the flats.

Two Hangings

96 There are two hangings
 from one side from the ground.
97 In all attacks
 strike, thrust, posture–soft or hard.

The Speaking Window

98 Do the speaking window,
 stand blithely and look at his actions.
99 Strike him until he is defeated.
 When he withdraws from you,
100 I say to you truthfully:
 no one protects himself without danger.
101 If you have learned this,
 he can scarcely manage to strike.

This Is the Conclusion of the Notes

102 Who conducts well and breaks properly
 and finally makes it all right
103 and splits particularly
 everything into three wounders;
104 who properly well hangs
 and also executes the windings,
105 and the eight windings
 views in a righteous way,
106 and each one of
 those same winds I consider to be triple
107 so they are
 twenty-four.
108 And count them only, from both sides.
 Eight windings learn with stepping.
109 And test the bind
 no more than soft or hard.